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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Why I Like M's (and a reminder to stay prepared)
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:33:46 -0500
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Be happy that the deer didn't jump out right in front of your car.  We have 
one stretch of street where they are a real threat in early morning and late 
afternoon.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu>
To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 1:28 PM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Why I Like M's (and a reminder to stay prepared)


>I was leaving the Department of Motor Vehicles after getting my driver's 
>license renewed, cruising down Mill Rd., when three deer came to the curb 
>ahead of me, looking like they were going to cross the street.  I pulled 
>over to try and get a shot, but my M3 was in a bag in the back seat 
>(mistake), so I pulled my LX3 from my jacket pocket and tried to take a 
>picture.  Ha!  By the time I found the ON button... and it powered up...and 
>it gave me a warning that the control dial was out of position between 
>settings...and I moved the dial...and I had the camera ready for use...the 
>deer had run up the street ahead of me and turned right, into a field.  I 
>took some shots anyway as mementos, but if I would have had my M3 ready on 
>the seat next to me with my favored 85mmm f/2 Nikkor, and set for the 
>existing exposure, as I usually do, I would have been able to get off some 
>pictures when they were at the curb.
>
> For fun, I blew up the Lumix file to get a "Blow-Up" effect as in the 
> film:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/LensFun/ThreeDeer_AMR_645.jpg.html>
>
> Full frame:
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/LensFun/ThreeDeerFullFrame_AMR.jpg.html>
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
>
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